Bioinformatics Advance Access originally published online on July 29, 2004
Bioinformatics 2004 20(18):3700-3701; doi:10.1093/bioinformatics/bth433
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Bioinformatics vol. 20 issue 18 © Oxford University Press 2004; all rights reserved.
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Ontologies for Behavior
Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, USA
Received on March 22, 2004; revised on July 15, 2004; accepted on July 19, 2004
Advance Access Publication July 29, 2004
Summary: Although dozens of biological ontologies have been created and deployed, relatively little attention has been given to using ontologies to represent behavior. Ontologies for two different behavior systems are described here. One ontology was a translation of a published ethogram, and the second was coded from video clips in a comparative study of jumping spider courtship.
Availability: http://mesquiteproject.org/ontology/
Contact: peter{at}biorepresentation.com
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